John Van Druten - Plays

Plays

  • The Return Half (1924)
  • Chance Acquaintance (1927)
  • Young Woodley (NY 1925, London 1928)
  • Diversion (1928)
  • The Return of the Soldier (from Rebecca West's novel, 1928)
  • After All (1929, NY 1931)
  • London Wall (1931)
  • Sea Fever (with Auriol Lee, from the French, 1931)
  • There's Always Juliet (1931, NY 1932)
  • Hollywood Holiday (with Benn W Levy, 1931)
  • Somebody Knows (1932)
  • Behold, We Live (1932)
  • The Distaff Side (1933, NY 1934)
  • Flowers of the Forest (1934)
  • Most of the Game (1935)
  • Gertie Maude (1937)
  • Leave Her to Heaven (1940)
  • Old Acquaintance (1940, NY 1941)
  • Solitaire (adaptation, 1942)
  • The Damask Cheek (with Lloyd Morris, 1942)
  • The Voice of the Turtle (1943), which ran for three seasons in New York
  • I Remember Mama (adaptation of Kathryn Forbes' family memoir, Mama's Bank Account, 1944)
  • The Mermaids Singing (1945)
  • The Druid Circle (1947)
  • Make Way for Lucia (1948)
  • Bell, Book and Candle (1950; filmed in 1958 starring James Stewart and Kim Novak)
  • I Am a Camera (1951) from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories. New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1951-52
  • I've Got Sixpence (1952)

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